Hey guys,
This is my last post before surgery tomorrow. The first G Nail patient just contacted me and he's fine. Depending on how I feel, I will probably update before next week. Regarding the questions, Precice will be back by September, and I booked surgery and acommodation since January.
To be honest, I'm not even nervous. I have fought really hard to get here. I'm not a rich guy, and had to create a business just to get money to pay for this. I have been 1 year working like a madman. I have also stretched a lot and choose a good surgeon. I think I did all I could, and now the rest is just luck and discipline. I have lost years of my life due to height neurosis, and this ends tomorrow. Wether it goes well or not, I'm proud to have tried instead of accepting defeat.
Will update as soon as possible, thanks for the support¡
5.5 Cm Femurs with Dr. Giotikas and G-Nail.
Great attitude V21 you will be fine.
All the best.
Quote from: V21 on August 24, 2021, 02:45:56 PMHey guys,
This is my last post before surgery tomorrow. The first G Nail patient just contacted me and he's fine. Depending on how I feel, I will probably update before next week. Regarding the questions, Precice will be back by September, and I booked surgery and acommodation since January.
To be honest, I'm not even nervous. I have fought really hard to get here. I'm not a rich guy, and had to create a business just to get money to pay for this. I have been 1 year working like a madman. I have also stretched a lot and choose a good surgeon. I think I did all I could, and now the rest is just luck and discipline. I have lost years of my life due to height neurosis, and this ends tomorrow. Wether it goes well or not, I'm proud to have tried instead of accepting defeat.
Will update as soon as possible, thanks for the support¡
Really hope it works out for you. You'll do great.
Thanks for the update brother, best of luck! You'll nail it! You are in good hands.
Hey guys, just posting to let you know that I'm alive lol. Surgery went well, but the first days are tought. Today is the first day I feel somewhat decent, and I will update with more details when I get home. I just had like minor "complications": first day all day vomitting, second day wasn't able to pee and had to get catheter, yesterday I had dyharrea and had to go to the toilet 6 times (sitting there hurts)... Luckily, I feel good today and I'm able to move well with walker and crutches. In fact, Giotikas had us climbing stairs and it was possible. The other G Nail patient is also okay, and I'm sharing room with another user, Morning Star, who is doing LATN. I will update soon¡
On the other side!!! Nice one brother!! You did it!! Legend!
congrats v21!
More details about surgery day. I got to the hospital and they gave a pill they gave everyone for anxiety. I didn't really like it, because I entered the hospital in an spartan mindset and the pill left me like a a dumb baby, but I do understand its purpose. Surgery was very long because Giotikas had to effort to get the big nail (13 mm) on me. So surgery took like 7 hours, but all went fine, I got the big nail (up to 95 kg per leg) and the scars are really minimal.
When I woke up, I was very dizzy and vomited. There was an unknown guy there trying to explain me how to click just as soon as I woke up, and it turns out he was Guichet: he is here in order to make sure we click correctly. I know he has a big reputation here and he seems a bit crazy: they made me walk like 20 steps with walker, and I vomitted twice. Then he said something like "you can try stairs now". Luckily, Giotikas said that what I did was more than enough for the first day, so he "saved" me a bit. I was also shown how to click. It's very awkward, but didn't hurt much. I was all day very weak, vomiting and unable to eat. I slept 1 hour at best.
Second day was the hardest for me. I could not pee so I they put a catheter. The other patients could pee with no problem, so this only happened to me. Since I could not sleep, I was like all night strectching, and the PT guy asked me if I wanted to try crutches. I said yes, and I think it was a big mistake. At that point, I was able to use walker with no issue, but 3 steps on crutches left me incredibly tired and my legs got swollen. The pain that day was very bad, so my advice is not to rush things. I would have been fine if I had only used walker.
Third day started quite well. Giotikas told me this was the day for crutches, and now I did felt good using them. He also took me to climb stairs, and I was able to do it. It's really crazy how fast things change: second day I almost fainted with 3 steps on crutches, and the next day I was able to climb stairs no issue. My legs felt very good after doing it, being all day in bed is fk up. However, I started having dyharrea, and had to go to toilet 6 times. Sitting in and out of the toilet was very painful, and each trip to the toilet was a nightmare,so I can say yesterday ended up being a bad day too. Please notice that I was the only patient with dyharrea, so it seems like my body is a bit of a b*tch lol.
Today I feel better. I still have cramps on my stomach, but I can control them. I have walking like 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes now (crutches). I move slow, but it feels nice. I will again for a while now, so this is the first day I feel good. I was also able to sleep like 5 hours, which helped a lot. Tomorrow I get home finally.
Regarding pain, I was expecting spikes of high pain, for example while strecthing. The reality is different: there is no crazy pain, but there is constant pain that does not allow you to rest. The second day I had like 6/10 pain during almost all day and night, so it was really challenging. Take into consideration that I was the only patient vomiting and being unable to eat, so the others were better than me. I also find it very hard to sleep without being able to move much.
The good news is that, after day 2, you get much better. It happened to me and to the others, there are big changes in recovery since day 2 to day 3. You just have to hang on and survive the first 2, which are quite bad. Today my pain is maybe 2/10, and I have been all day strechting with 0 issues.
Best regards from Athens to all of you.
Probably I'll make my LATN diary too, but a bit later.
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